Interesting fact:
The popular chocolate bar "Three Musketeers" got its name because when it was first introduced in 1932 there were three individual bars. The flavours were strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla

MusketA species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been completely superseded by the rifle, and is now only of historical interest.

Musket(Zoöl) The male of the sparrow hawk.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
The Three Musketeers names are Porthos, Athos, and Aramis (D'Artagnan joins them later.)

nmusketIn falconry, an inferior kind of hawk; a sparrow-hawk. See eyas-musket.

nmusketA hand-gun for soldiers, introduced in European armies in the sixteenth century: it succeeded the harquebus, and became in time the common arm of the infantry. It was at first very heavy, and was provided with a rest. The earliest muskets were matchlocks, which were superseded by the wheel-lock, the snaphance, the flint-lock, and the percussion-guns. The musket was made lighter, while still gaining in efficiency and accuracy. The rifle-musket was introduced in the middle of the nineteenth century. See rifle, and cuts under matchlock and gun.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

nMusketmus′ket any kind of smooth-bore military hand-gun: a male sparrow-hawk

Xavier used an 11-0 run during the second half to take a lead that the Drake men's basketball team could not overcome, and the Musketeers collected a 74-70 victory in the finale of the DirecTV Classic on Sunday morning.

THIS SATURDAY NIGHT IS THE 5TH ANNUAL PINK IN THE RINK ' BENEFIT HOCKEY GAME TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER THE SIOUX CITY MUSKETEERS HOST THE CHICAGO STEEL AT THE TYSON EVENTS CENTER AT 7PM.

In science:

XMM-Newton observations of PSR B0656+14, PSR B1055-52 and Geminga have substantially increased the statistics available for these three isolated neutron stars, so apparently similar to deserve the nickname of “Three Musketeers” (Becker & Tr¨umper, 1997).

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

The phase-averaged spectrum of the three musketeers is best described by a three component model.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

Such exceptional harvest of X-ray photons over the ample energy interval covered by the EPIC cameras allows us to use a new tool for the study of the X-ray behaviour of the “Three musketeers”: phase resolved spectroscopy.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

With a number of time-tagged photons (see Table 1) more than doubling all previous statistics, EPIC offers now the ﬁrst chance of meaningful phase-resolved spectroscopy for the three musketeers.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

The case of Geminga was described by Caraveo et al.(2004); we will report here the results to ease a synoptic view of the phenomenology of the three musketeers.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

No signiﬁcant spectral features are detected superimposed on the continuum of the three musketeers, neither in emission nor in absorption.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

Therefore such model cannot provide a satisfactory description of the spectra of the three musketeers.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

A synoptic plot of the spectra of the three musketeers is shown in Fig. 4.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

We summarize the results of the EPIC spectral ﬁts for the three musketeers in Table 3, where errors are computed at 90% conﬁdence level for a single interesting parameter.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

As shown in Fig. 4, the overall shape of the spectrum of the three musketeers is very similar.

On the polar caps of the 3 Musketeers

It is tempting to link their origin to energetic particle bombardment, following the Ruderman mechanism, especially because certainly two (and possibly all) of the three musketeers are strong γ -ray sources.